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Your health

6 myths about food and diets

There are a lot of myths around the topic of "healthy" diets, food composition, vegetarianism or medical problems with excess weight. We decided to start with the most popular ones.

05.09.2017
Prolonging youth

Why does the skin age?

Exposure to intense sunlight and the inescapable time factor lead to sagging skin, the appearance of wrinkles and pigmentation disorders.

05.09.2017
New in Gerontology

The size of nucleoli is a biomarker of longevity

The size of the nucleoli is not only a marker of the longevity of the body, but also one of the factors triggering the mechanisms of increasing life expectancy.

05.09.2017
New in Gerontology

Physical education and dementia: new data

Physical activity in the middle of life does not protect against Alzheimer's disease, but helps to preserve the cardiovascular system and improves blood circulation of the brain.

05.09.2017
Healthy skepticism

The case of the healing bracelet

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published an information message about the children's "homeopathic healing bracelet".

04.09.2017
Other life sciences

Nerve repair can be accelerated

Scientists have found a new key to the process of restoring peripheral nerves by discovering that antisense RNA is expressed when they are damaged.

04.09.2017
Nanotechnology

Nanoantibiotics

Nanoparticles that mimic the structure of the shell of bacteriophage viruses can kill various types of bacteria, including strains resistant to antibiotics.

04.09.2017
Genetic engineering

Another EteRNA

The newly released new version of the game offers its participants to create a new RNA molecule using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology.

04.09.2017
Biomedicine

Restored axons

A complex of drugs tested on mice can help patients with spinal cord injury, stroke and neurodegenerative diseases.

04.09.2017
Healthy skepticism

Applied quack studies

A chapter from the book "The Patient is Reasonable", which tells about what modern diagnostics is and how to distinguish a professional from a fraudster.

04.09.2017
Genetic engineering

RNA targeting of Cas9

Scientists used the new method to treat RNA-associated diseases, for example, type I and II myotonic dystrophy and Huntington's disease.

04.09.2017
Cellular technologies

Vascularized islets of Langerhans

Experiments on growing pancreatic islets with vessels "in vitro" were crowned with success. This discovery is fundamentally important for transplantology.

04.09.2017
Your health

"Alternative medicine" kills cancer patients

Chiropractic, homeopathy, acupuncture, juice diets and other forms of alternative medicine cannot cure cancer, no matter what the charlatans say about it.

04.09.2017
Your health

"Full but healthy" is a myth

Being overweight can increase the risk of heart disease by more than a quarter – even in people who seem to be healthy by all indicators except weight.

01.09.2017
Your health

What kind of disease is cancer? Part 4

Experts of the Atlas biomedical holding share information about screening, diagnosis and types of malignant tumors that can be detected at an early stage.

01.09.2017
Genetics

Alzheimer's and intelligence quotient

Scientists have found that a certain variation of the complex of genes involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease correlates with intellectual performance in childhood.

01.09.2017
Biotechnologies - into life

Clinical case

In the future, gene therapy can save people from many diseases. In practice, the first important step has been taken: for the first time this method has been approved for use in oncology.

01.09.2017
Note to the businessman

How to beat old age

Ilya Popov, member of the industry working groups under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation and Business Russia - on the prospects for the development of the biomedical technologies market.

01.09.2017
Other life sciences

How melanoma metastasizes

The cell growth factor midkin, secreted by melanoma, stimulates the growth of new lymphatic vessels and prepares niches for the formation of metastases.

01.09.2017